Hello Rob,

On Sat Nov 04 2017 12:53:32, Rob Swindell wrote to mark lewis:

 >> yeah, IIRC, it is mike miller's war ensemble bbs... whatever is
 >> going on, it seems to maybe be related to new features in
 >> sbbsecho...

 RS> How so?

It may not be the program itself, but the dupe bombs began happening the day he
upgraded to the latest sbbsecho sources (Oct 31 I believe). While I can't blame
sbbsecho since it doesn't actually post those messages, smbutil does.. So there
are a couple options:

1) Whatever utility (I assume smbutil) he's using to post his file reports to
Fidonet wasn't setup correctly (ie: wrong command line options), or those file
reports were never deleted when they were originally sent, and after the
upgrade, it started resending them all out over again..

2) Something in his configuration is wrong, seeing as though these posts have
gone out to multiple echos across the network, via 2 different links.

What happens with smbutil when you don't specify an areatag to post in? MYSTIC,
FMAIL_HELP, some German echo, and a few others have all been flooded with these
reports, so maybe they were rescanned out by sbbsecho after he upgraded? I'm
clueless as to what actually happened, and am only taking wild guesses here,
but I had to pause his feed from here until it's figured out and fixed.

Regards,
Nick

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